Mrs Quasimodo is a poem from the The World’s Wife collection by Carol Anne Duffy which takes characters and myths from history that focus on famous men. However‚ Duffy’s feminist view allows the reader to see the women’s‚ who were previously hidden behind these men‚ point of view. This poem focuses on the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame‚ Quasimodo is the hunchbacked bell-ringer so the poem pretends as though he has a wife. He falls in love with a beautiful Gypsy and Mrs Quasimodo starts to feel
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Compare and contrast how Duffy and Lochhead explore memories Both Carol Ann Duffy and Liz Lochhead provide an exploration of their childhood memories‚ and how these memories have changed and developed with age into analysis of social expectations of men and women in the 1960’s. In Duffys poem Litany and Lochheads poem 1953‚ both poets reflect on their childish perceptions of their parents conformity to social convention. Duffy and Lochhead excellently implement a dramatic monologue
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Commentary on “Originally” by Carol Ann Duffy Outgrowing childhood is leaving many cherished people‚ memories and treasures behind. Emigrating in childhood is leaving a culture‚ a language and a home behind. Carol Ann Duffy moved from Glasgow‚ Scotland to Stafford‚ England when she was six years old‚ in the 1960s‚ thus later writing this poem “Originally”. Through laying out childhood memories and ending on the note that she hesitates when asked of her origin‚ Carol Ann Duffy expresses regret that she
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event and makes it appear inconsequential. Salome is metaphorically murdering the man by stealing his masculinity‚ this can be seen as subverted misogyny because it is typically the woman who is used during a one night-stand‚ and yet during this poem it is the man who is reduced because of it. A one-night stand typically involved a man using a woman purely for her body‚ however in this version of events the fact that Salome has the ability to seek out this anonymous man and murder him shows her
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Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy "Before you were mine" is a poem written by a daughter about how she imagines her mother ’s life ten years before the daughter was born. The author describes the photo of her mother with two of her friends. They “shriek at the pavement” and seem to be sharing a joke‚ young and lightsome (line 4). She knows that the thought of having a child one day doesn ’t occur to her mother when she was young and had a lot of dreams. Now remembering her own childhood‚ Duffy thinks of
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------------------------------------------------- Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “Shooting Stars” is a horrific and moving poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. She adopts the persona of a female Jew speaking out from beyond the grave about her terrifying ordeal before she died in the Holocaust. A powerful impression is left on the reader after reading Duffy’s dramatic monologue and visual descriptions
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Havisham A poem in which the speaker’s personality is gradually revealed is "Havisham" by Carol Ann Duffy. The poem is delivered in the persona of Miss Havisham‚ a character from Charles Dickens’ novel‚ "Great Expectations". In the poem‚ Miss Havisham was cruelly stood-up on her wedding day by her fraudster fiancé‚ and as a result she stopped all the clocks‚ stayed in her wedding dress and left the wedding banquet out for decades. Miss Havisham’s bitter and violent personality is revealed
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How does Carol Ann Duffy create character? The two poems I will be focusing on today are ’Girl talking’ and ’Lizzie‚six’. Both poems follow two innocent children that were abused either sexually or physically. There are two apparent themes in both poems‚ Loss of innocence and also Growing up. I will be discussing both of these and in which way are they portrayed in the poems I have chosen. ’Girl talking’ is a poem based on a young girl who was raped‚ and died as a result. The poem opens with
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ordinary speech as if the poet is speaking directly to her mother. Although much of what she talks about takes place before Duffy was born she makes her presence felt by using ’I’ to start many phrases. ’I’m ten years away.’ The poet seems to have been stimulated to write after seeing an old photo of her mother enjoying herself with some girl friends when she was a teenager. The poem is written in the present tense as if the events of the photo are happening now. It is written in four equal stanzas of
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people can speak about love through the use of poems. Some poems tell a story; some illustrate what love should or shouldn’t be; some poems express the separation of two loved ones. There is no limit to explaining what love really is. The poems ‘Sonnet 116’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy both try
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